Stranded Motorist Killed Running Across I-485

On July 11, 2023, Charlotte Fire Department and Mecklenburg County EMS responded to a reported pedestrian on the outerloop of Interstate 485 nearPark Road in Pineville. Firefighters found a man lying in lanes of I-485 behind a dump truck. The person was pronounced deceased by paramedics. The 67-year-old man, living in Charlotte but from New York, ran across multiple interstate lanes when a dump truck traveling east in the right lane struck and killed him. The man was standing in front of his broken-down vehicle before the deadly crash. The interstate was closed forapproximately three hours while North Carolina State Highway Patrol Troopers investigated.

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